My Battles With Technology

From Jargon to Genius: Cracking the Code of SPF & DKIM DNS Records

After writing my DMARC Reports: Your Secret Weapon Against Domain Fraud (And How to Read Them) post, I realized that I hadn’t really looked at SPF and DKIM records too much. I had read how you could be protecting your brand from email spoofing with SPF and DKIM records but hadn’t explored them very much. I figured that it made more sense to dig a little deeper into what SPF and DKIM records are as well as how they work....

DMARC Reports: Your Secret Weapon Against Domain Fraud (And How to Read Them)

I recently received Emails for my Shopify stores Momma Bears Creations and InkedWith regarding missing DMARC DNS entries. The Email was titled: Add a DMARC record to continue sending emails from your domain. An example of the Email is below Gmail and Yahoo have announced changes that require you to add a DMARC record on your domain before February 1, 2024 if you’d like to continue sending emails from a branded email address....

From Reactive to Proactive: Transforming Security with Tetragon

I previously blogged about Starboard and How to Install and Use Starboard to Protect Your Kubernetes Cluster. These articles were focused more on vulnerability and configuration management. Now, I wanted to focus my attention on runtime security observability using Tetragon. Getting Started With Tetragon The first step is to install it. The Tetragon website recommends using Helm 3 to deploy it so that’s what we’ll do. I’m deploying with just the default values for now...

From Vulnerability to Visibility: Demystifying Starboard Infrastructure Scan Reports

In previous posts,How to Install and Use Starboard to Protect Your Kubernetes Cluster and Enhancing Kubernetes Security and Compliance with Starboard Audit Reports: A Practical Guide, I started working through the different security reports available from the Starboard security scanner. The next step is to begin reviewing starboard Infrastructure Scans for security insights. Getting an Infrastructure Report After installing Starboard, I waited for it to run and generate all kinds of reports....

Enhancing Kubernetes Security and Compliance with Starboard Audit Reports: A Practical Guide

In my How to Install and Use Starboard to Protect Your Kubernetes Cluster post, I first installed Starboard and reviewed a vulnerability scan report. After reviewing the results, I then tried to action some of the vulnerabilities in my MySQL deployment. In addition to vulnerability scans, Starboard can also conduct configuration audits of your Kubernetes deployment. I wanted to review those next and walk through a Kubernetes audit report action plan....